Mojave Meanderings and Wasteland Wanderings, The Fallout "Where are you now" thread Options

[SubRosa]

Phew, for a moment I was worried that Cho might turn to the dark side and get in on the money making scheme. Glad to see he remained true to his heroic self in the end.

[Lopov]

OMG I totally, totally forgot about this quest until now. I did it only once with my first character in FO3 but it slipped out of my mind. As soon as I saw the ghoul with the wig, I remembered it. So Cho packs a new wig now?

[Acadian]

So Griffion is just another snake oil salesman peddling rad water to desperate ghouls? Good to see Cho intervened.

[Renee]

OH, Cho's a goody! He is somewhat righteous, and he has plenty of caps. Some cheap swindler of a salesman can't get to him.

Yes that was funny, that whole scene. Cho did not get the wig.

Saturday, 06.11.78: Cho Zen Wan is currently relaxing in Moriarty's getting buzzed on whiskey. And check this out. He just paid 120 caps to Nova, but did not join her in the room upstairs. He just wanted her to have the money without having to 'work' for it.

[Renee]

Saturday, 06.11.78, 2:09 PM -- Cho Zen Wan is in Megaton, having some whiskey at The Brass Lantern. Listening to random conversations, which are few and far between in this desolate locale.

Tomorrow he'll be going to Tenpenny Tower, a place he hasn't been in awhile. There's a fellow named Milord who needs to be 'dealt with'.

[mirocu]

Played again for the first time in AGES!


Today Gunny and I took the D.C route starting in L'Enfant Plaza and working our way up through Washington monument, Takoma park, Takoma industries and ending with Friendship Heights. Lots of loot gathered; both Gunny and I were full at the end. Gunny was destroyed a few times but luckily I'm a good repairman

[SubRosa]

Thanks to Renee's chronicles of Miss V, I decided to take a dip back into Fallout. I pretty much finished up January's run through of Fallotu 3 already. So I moved her to New Vegas.

But I have been having a lot of weird issues. The graphics looks odd, like everything has a soft focus. Fiddling with the graphics options does not help. Depth of Field is already turned off in the .ini file, etc...

I can live with that however what is worse is that I am getting random game freezes. It is so bad that I cannot even alt-tab out of the game. I have to restart the computer every time it happens. This is in spite of having already implemented the multi-core .ini tweak to prevent CTDs. And in spite of using New Vegas Anti Crash. And the New Vegas stutter remover.

Maybe I will try removing the stutter remover and see if that actually improves things?

All I can think is different is now I am using the Gog version of the game. I don't recall these issues with the Steam version, but I could be wrong.

[Renee]

Ah jeez I'm not sure what that could be. I haven't played New Vegas on PC yet, only Xbox. Maybe Lopov or Wyrd knows. Good luck.

[SubRosa]

I think I have my freezing issue fixed. It seems to be a Windows 10 issue, not a Gog version problem. I updated NVSE with a new(ish) beta version, updated New Vegas Anti Crash with a new beta version of it, and replaced New Vegas Stutter Remover with NVTF - New Vegas Tick Fix.

I am not sure if the final one was necessary or not. But I was being thorough. NVTF is a similar program to the Stutter Remover, so both cannot work at the same time, as they do the same thing.

I did find a tip for using NV Stutter Remover with Windows 10 however:

CODE

If you are using this mod on Windows 10, you need to open sr_New_Vegas_Stutter_Remover.ini in notepad and change the line:

bHookLightCriticalSections = 1

to

bHookLightCriticalSections = 0

Otherwise you will crash every 10-15 minutes or during load screens.

Now I am wondering if Fallout 3 might have the same problem. After I updated to Windows 10, I only started it up to make sure it worked. I did not play it for long. The same with New Vegas.

[Renee]

Ohhh yes, Windows 10. Gosh darnit.

I use something for Fallout 3 which limits frames to 60 fps; otherwise my graphics card winds up wasting frames like mad. Haven't had much problem with stuttering in that game, but CRASHES are another story. FO3 is the least stable Bethesda game of all. Good thing is, as long as I Save and then Load every 20-30 minutes or so, I won't get random CTDs. They seem to occur due to a certain amount of time passing at this point.

Anyway, glad to hear you have figured out your problem. Post some PICS!!!!

[SubRosa]

I think the problem with Fallout 3 is that it came out soon after multi-core cpus became a standard thing. So the game was not made with them in mind. It is not the only game from that era that can have issues like that. Plus Bethesda is just not good at the programming side of things period.

[Lopov]

I remember that a long time ago removing the stutter remover actually caused less stuttering and CTDs were not so common anymore.

Do you use OneTweak? It made CTDs even less frequent in my game. Apart from these fixes I use only NVAC and JIP NVSE plugin. And I also use Windows 10.

I actually use NVAC for FO3 as well. It was the only program that solved the CTD issue in FO3.

This post has been edited by Lopov: Jun 29 2021, 07:28 PM

[SubRosa]

I do not use One Tweak. At this point I don't want to change anything, since it is working now.

[Renee]

As per Lopov's Enemies of the Wastes mod: I had to redo some quests from before. So Cho defeated the Nuns of Hallowed Moor for the second time! This time, he made sure to leave his C-team back in Big Town, while he approached alone. He used his binoculars to get a good look at them. There were a bunch of red dots as he drew near. But none of them were moving! We didn't know what those were... Nuns, or mutants?

Finally he saw it was the Nuns. They were all standing outside of the chapel. But their clothing blended them in really well, so they were hard to see, even in daylight! The first time we approached this place, his C-team went nuts. Pretty much noticed and pwned most of them before Cho could make one of his stealth shots.

This time, he had them all to his own. He fired at one of them, blamblamblamblamblam and insta-pwned Sister Angrond I think. But then the rest of those sisters came after him! He had no choice but to run. They wouldn't give up chasing him, so he had to eat a Stealth Boy and hide under a bridge. From that moment on, he kept sneaking around and cherry-picking them from a distance. One of the nuns (the flamethrower one) drowned in a river.

[mirocu]

Business as usual for me and Gunny. Right now we're east of Tenpenney having travelled south from bout the middle of the Wasteland.

Gotta earn those caps!

[Renee]

Gotta earn those caps!

It's so funny to me how Mirocu is like this totally rich guy in his time, millions of caps by now. Yet if he were to be somehow transported back to our time, all those caps would be worthless. He'd show up to some bank, looking to cash in and buy a home with a pool in Alexandria, a robot, and a Lexus. Only to find himself getting laughed out onto the sidewalk.

Bottles are worth a few pennies in America, depending which state we're in. In Michigan they are (or were) worth a dime, for each one brought to a recycling facility. Nobody cares about the caps, though.

ah geez. I'm just messin' with ya Crow, as usual.

[mirocu]

Nobody cares about the caps, though.

That's the words of the poor


I don't remember how many caps I have now but over half a million I think. I'll never need them but they're a good enough reason for us to trek out and hunt all the vermin of the Wasteland

[SubRosa]

Gotta earn those caps!

It's so funny to me how Mirocu is like this totally rich guy in his time, millions of caps by now. Yet if he were to be somehow transported back to our time, all those caps would be worthless. He'd show up to some bank, looking to cash in and buy a home with a pool in Alexandria, a robot, and a Lexus. Only to find himself getting laughed out onto the sidewalk.

Bottles are worth a few pennies in America, depending which state we're in. In Michigan they are (or were) worth a dime, for each one brought to a recycling facility. Nobody cares about the caps, though.

ah geez. I'm just messin' with ya Crow, as usual.

That is right, 10 cents for these bad boys in Michigan! A veritable treasure trove.

[Renee]

I think in D.C. bottles can still be returned for 5 cents each. Not in Maryland though. I'll have to start paying attention to bottles. Pretty sure it's D.C., New York, Michigan, Oregon... 3 or 4 other states.

Vicious is back in Springvale Elementary and she gained good XP for her latest mission. She is Level 4 now. I threw a point at Energy Weapons, and multiple points at Lockpick, Medicine, Small Guns, and Speech. I gave her the Gun Nut perk.

[mirocu]

Jumped between merchants to find someone with caps for my goods, and then Gunny and I went northbound and had some fun with the Talons there. After that we went south. Currently going north again via the car bridge.